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{{Short description|Female name of several Greek mythological figures}}
{{Greek myth (aquatic nymphs)}}In [[Religion:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], '''Xanthe''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|z|æ|n|θ|iː}}; [[Social:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]]: Ξανθή or Ξάνθη ''Xanthê'' means 'blond-haired'<ref name=":022">{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=346}}</ref>) or '''Xantho''' may refer to the following divinity and women:

* Xanthe, one of the 3,000 [[Unsolved:Oceanids|Oceanids]], [[Unsolved:Naiad|water-nymph]] daughters of the Titans [[Religion:Oceanus|Oceanus]] and his sister-wife Tethys.<ref>[[Biography:Hesiod|Hesiod]], ''[[Religion:Theogony|Theogony]]'' 356; Virgil, ''Georgics'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Verg.+G.+4.333&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0058:chapter=&highlight=Xantho 4.336]</ref>
* Xantho, one of the 50 [[Unsolved:Nereid|Nereids]], sea-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid [[Unsolved:Doris (mythology)|Doris]].<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#0.2 Preface]</ref><ref name=":02">{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=346}}</ref>
* Xanthe, wife of [[Religion:Asclepius|Asclepius]] in the Messenian version of the story.Machaon was her son.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14725681|title=Asclepius : a collection and interpretation of the testimonies|date=1945|publisher=The Johns Hopkins Press|others=Emma J. Edelstein, Ludwig Edelstein|isbn=978-0-8018-5769-0|location=Baltimore|pages=21|oclc=14725681}}</ref>
* Xanthe, one of the [[Social:Amazons|Amazons]].<ref>Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 163 "AMAZONS: Ocyale, Dioxippe, Iphinome, Xanthe, Hippothoe, Otrere, Antioche, Laomache, Glauce, Agave, Theseis, Hippolyte, Clymene, Polydora, Penthesilea."</ref>
*Xantho, one of the [[Unsolved:Maenad|maenads]] named in a vase painting.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Walters|first=Henry Beauchamp|url=|title=History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman: Based on the Work of Samuel Birch|year=1905|volume=2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofancient02walt/page/65/mode/2up/ 65]}}</ref>

== Notes ==

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== References ==

* [[Biography:Gaius Julius Hyginus|Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Biography:Hesiod|Hesiod]], ''[[Religion:Theogony|Theogony]]'' from ''The Homeric Hymns and Homerica'' with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0129 Greek text available from the same website].
* Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics'', ''Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0058 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].

[[Category:Oceanids]]
[[Category:Nereids]]

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